Deadline writes: Tom Cruise has committed to star for Universal Pictures in Oblivion, the science fiction film that will be directed by Joseph Kosinski, who last helmed Tron: Legacy. Production will begin in October. Cruise had been loosely attached to the Radical Publishing graphic novel adaptation when Disney let it go and Universal committed to finance and distribute the $100 million film, which came with a William Monahan script that was being rewritten by Karl Gajdusek. Kosinski hatched the idea for the project and set it to be published by Barry Levine's graphic novel imprint as a calling card for a movie when Kosinski was busy for so long directing Tron: Legacy, which topped out at $400 million worldwide gross.

However the first hour was pretty good. It showed he could at least get the right camera angles and keep the pace up etc...I blame the writers. Its the writers that put in all the dialogue, which was nearly a book for this movie, not the director. Cut the dialogue and do some more showing and Tron would be fine with me.

Sounds a little different and Tom Cruise really hasn't done that many movies lately. He used to put them out like hotcakes but not anymore. He just finished MI4 and he only made one last year...I think..

Kinda ironic this comes just after studio's are taking interest in Bioshock. Of course I think those movies will be based off the early games where its under water, but the new game takes place in the clouds from what we are told....Talk about stealing someone elses thunder.